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Definition of Jolly boat
1. Noun. A yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work.
Definition of Jolly boat
1. Noun. A type of ship's boat of the 18th and 19th centuries, used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jolly Boat
Literary usage of Jolly boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"OF joconde*, not recorded, but it ob- , Todd's Johnson, — Dan. jolie, a yawl,
jolly-boat. + Swed. julle, a viously must have existed; Roquefort gives the ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1914)
"The jolly boat had more on board than we considered safe. ... Those who went
aboard the jolly boat took their chance, there was no selection— sailors as ..."
3. The dog fiend; or, Snarleyyow by Frederick Marryat (1856)
"But as the corporal did not tell all the facts connected with his cruise in the
jolly- boat to Mr. ..."
4. Recollections of Auton House by Augustus Hoppin (1909)
"... straddling sides than any other two private beds in New England. To enter the
ark we needed a chair, to board the jolly-boat we had only to tumble in. ..."
5. Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 by William Jackson Hooker (1813)
"The storm, however, continued with almost unabated violence for two nights, in
one of which our jolly boat was washed away from her lashings, and broken in ..."
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